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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed the first Roman mosaic of its kind in the UK. A rare Roman mosaic and surrounding villa complex have been
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The elites of premodern Korea carved their names into rocks in the sacred mountains of Kŭmgangsan for much the same reason that today's
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from the University of Gothenburg have concluded an excavation of two tombs in the Bronze Age city of Hala Sultan Tekke in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The oldest unequivocal evidence of upright walking in the human lineage are footprints discovered at Laetoli, Tanzania, in 1978, by paleontologist Mary Leakey
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team, led by researchers from the Universities of Vienna and Tübingen, and the Max Planck Society, has identified five new human
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - What if Indigenous diets could save our politically and ecologically strained planet? The answer may lie in the success of an ancient civilization
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A skull unearthed on an uninhabited Caribbean island is a rare find: It's one of just a few examples of leprosy identified on
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study from The Australian National University (ANU) has revealed the death rate of babies in ancient societies is not a reflection
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Based on the identification of plant remains, Tel Aviv University and Tel-Hai College researchers provide the first detailed reconstruction of the climate in
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new multidisciplinary study by an international team reports the discovery of an ivory pendant decorated with a pattern of at least 50
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Referred to as China's Venice of the Stone Age, the Liangzhu excavation site in eastern China is considered one of the most significant
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Several artifacts have been unearthed in the ancient city of Aizanoi, located 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Kütahya city center, a hometown, known for
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in the 5,000-year-old city of Aizanoi, Turkey have unearthed an ancient oil lamp shop as well as a bone workshop. Nicknamed
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient Maya had stone temples and palaces in the rainforest of Central America, along with dynastic records of royal leaders carved in stone,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Expedition members of IA RAS have found a unique plate depicting winged Scythian gods surrounded by griffons during their excavations of the burial
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - 'Plague sceptics' are wrong to underestimate the devastating impact that bubonic plague had in the 6th– 8th centuries CE, argues a new study based
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many believe climate change and environmental degradation caused the Maya civilization to fall—but a new survey shows that some Maya kingdoms had sustainable
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The third millennium BCE is a highly dynamic period in the prehistory of Europe and western Asia, characterized by large-scale social and political
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient Romans were masters in the field of building solid aqueducts that in many cases survived the passage of time. “Engineers in the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study explores the complex relationship between poisonous mercury and humans' health during 5,000 years of history. Mercury is considered to be
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Latest scientific findings suggest the ancestral Native American population does not originate in Japan, as believed by many archaeologists. A widely accepted theory
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient Indigenous fishing practices can be used to inform sustainable management and conservation today, according to a new study from Simon Fraser University.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Being a wine taster may sound like an enjoyable profession to many but as we all know drinking too much can give you
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Roman Empire was ruled by 175 men, from Augustus (63 BCE-19 CE) to Constantine XI (1405-53), including the Eastern or Byzantine Empire
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While excavating on the cemetery site, near the ruins of Lindisfarne on the Holy Island, off the northeast coast of England archaeologists uncovered
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In ancient times, the Assyrians were one of the Near East’s superpowers, controlling a landmass that stretched from Iran to Egypt. They accomplished
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The origin and early dispersal of Transeurasian languages, including, among others, Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic, is among the most disputed issues
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Stone Age cities sound like something of an oxymoron. But as many as 10 000 people lived in Çatalhöyük in Turkey some 8000-9000
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Anyone traveling from the German city of Brandenburg via Berlin to Frankfurt an der Oder at the Polish-German border does so along an
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